About Cold Laser

                        What is Cold Laser and why is it included in your Healing Package?

LASER is an acronym that stands for Light Amplification of Stimulated Emissions of Radiation.  Lasers can be thermal or non-thermal.  You are probably more familiar with thermal lasers. These are used in surgery to cut or burn tissues.  There are also, Non-thermal lasers.  This is the type of laser we use for tissue healing.

                                           How do Cold Lasers work?

When a muscle undergoes trauma, either directly or indirectly, it goes into spasm.  The spasm reduces blood flow to the muscle and surrounding tissues resulting in decreased oxygen and nutrients and increased metabolic wastes.  The result is decreased ATP generation (ATP is the food of the cell), and an increase in pain.
Three elements are crucial to tissue healing, ATP generation, protein synthesis and membrane transport.

Cold lasers heal tissue ailments by injecting billions of photons of visible and invisible laser light deep into tissue structures.  Tissues naturally contain protein strands called chromophores and cytochromes located in the mitochondria of a cell.  These protein strands possess the unique ability to absorb laser light energy and transform it into chemical energy for the cell.  This chemical energy is utilized by the tissue on a cellular level to accelerate the healing process by increasing microcirculation. 
       
                                           What can Cold Laser Therapy do?

• Decrease Pain: Decreases the sensory nerve conduction and increases the production of serotonin and norepinephrine. 
• Decrease Inflammation and Edema:  Reduces swelling caused by bruising or inflammation of joints to provide enhanced joint mobility.
• Heal Wounds Faster:  Induces fibroblasts to increase collagen production three fold.  Repeated treatments have more effect than one single treatment.
• Increase Vascular Activity:  Increasing blood flow to damaged areas.
• Increase Tensile Strength:  Laser treated wounds have significantly greater tensile strength when treated in the first 10-14 days.
• Decrease Scar Tissue Formation:  Less scarring and a better cosmetic appearance.
• Accelerate Cartilage and Bone Healing Time: Cartilage and fractured bones heal faster.
• Stimulate Nerve Function:  Slow recovery of nerve function in damaged tissue can result in “dead” limbs or numb areas.  Laser light speeds the process of nerve cell reconnection to bring the numb areas back to life.